Inhaltsangabe

Nestled in the hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret. When Joel Jennison is found slaughtered in the same field where his brother’s corpse had lain ten weeks previously, a whole community falls under suspicion. Was it a family feud? An act of revenge? As a forty-something woman with no previous experience of detective work, Thea Osborne knows she shouldn’t be getting involved but as she calls on her neighbours to get some answers, she uncovers more tragedy and intrigue that she thought possible behind the chocolate-box façade of a peaceful Gloucestershire village.

Five figures gather 'round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken, but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood. Years later a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders that shock the Black Country.

2 out of 5 stars

leicht durchschaubar

Von
A Lukas
Am hilfreichsten
19.12.2017

The Crossing Places

Autor:
Elly Griffiths

Sprecher:
Jane McDowell

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 26 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
43

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.

4 out of 5 stars

Gelungener Auftakt für eine Krimi Serie

Von
BaS
Am hilfreichsten
12.05.2017

The Windermere Witness

Autor:
Rebecca Tope

Sprecher:
Julia Franklin

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 24 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
2

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
2

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
2

Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to be nearer her parents. But her peace is shattered when, at a wedding, the bride's brother is found brutally murdered. As the florist of the wedding and one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive, Simmy gradually becomes involved with the relatives. When events take another sinister turn, Simmy finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation.

Care to Die

Inspector Jim Carruthers, Book 2

Autor:
Tana Collins

Sprecher:
James Gillies

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 59 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

A man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve, a ball of cloth rammed in his throat. When a second body is found, Carruthers is convinced that the reason for the deaths lies in the past. But how is the historical disappearance of a boy, the murder of a former journalist and a bitter dispute about a nature reserve connected? Are they hunting for one killer...or more?

Murder on the Old Bog Road

Autor:
David Pearson

Sprecher:
Brian Walsh

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 23 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

3 out of 5 stars
1

Sprecher

3 out of 5 stars
1

Geschichte

2 out of 5 stars
1

It’s a cold winter evening, and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an obstacle in the road. She clears the highway of stones from a damaged bridge only to see the body of a woman in a ditch. With no phone reception, she travels to the nearest police station to report what she has found. The local Garda waste no time in attending the scene of the crime.

The Gathering Murders

Autor:
Keith Moray

Sprecher:
David McCallion

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 40 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

3 out of 5 stars
1

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
1

Geschichte

3 out of 5 stars
1

The annual West Uist literary festival - The Gathering - always attracts the best in the business. But with the tiny island population suddenly doubling, the local police force is stretched to breaking point. And this year they have to deal with more than just drunken fights and rowdy behaviour.... Ranald Buchanan, the local poet, is found dead, with his head brutally caved in, and Inspector Torquil McKinnon is brought in to investigate. Did Ranald trip and fall, as suggested? Or is something more sinister happening?

Silent Scream

Detective Kim Stone Crime Thriller, Book 1

Autor:
Angela Marsons

Sprecher:
Jan Cramer

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 17 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
30

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
29

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
30

Five figures gather 'round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken, but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood. Years later a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders that shock the Black Country.

2 out of 5 stars

leicht durchschaubar

Von
A Lukas
Am hilfreichsten
19.12.2017

The Crossing Places

Autor:
Elly Griffiths

Sprecher:
Jane McDowell

Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 26 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
43

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.

4 out of 5 stars

Gelungener Auftakt für eine Krimi Serie

Von
BaS
Am hilfreichsten
12.05.2017

The Windermere Witness

Autor:
Rebecca Tope

Sprecher:
Julia Franklin

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 24 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
2

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
2

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
2

Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to be nearer her parents. But her peace is shattered when, at a wedding, the bride's brother is found brutally murdered. As the florist of the wedding and one of the last people to talk to Mark Baxter alive, Simmy gradually becomes involved with the relatives. When events take another sinister turn, Simmy finds herself at the heart of a murder investigation.

Care to Die

Inspector Jim Carruthers, Book 2

Autor:
Tana Collins

Sprecher:
James Gillies

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 59 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

A man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve, a ball of cloth rammed in his throat. When a second body is found, Carruthers is convinced that the reason for the deaths lies in the past. But how is the historical disappearance of a boy, the murder of a former journalist and a bitter dispute about a nature reserve connected? Are they hunting for one killer...or more?

Murder on the Old Bog Road

Autor:
David Pearson

Sprecher:
Brian Walsh

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 23 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

3 out of 5 stars
1

Sprecher

3 out of 5 stars
1

Geschichte

2 out of 5 stars
1

It’s a cold winter evening, and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an obstacle in the road. She clears the highway of stones from a damaged bridge only to see the body of a woman in a ditch. With no phone reception, she travels to the nearest police station to report what she has found. The local Garda waste no time in attending the scene of the crime.

The Gathering Murders

Autor:
Keith Moray

Sprecher:
David McCallion

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 40 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

3 out of 5 stars
1

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
1

Geschichte

3 out of 5 stars
1

The annual West Uist literary festival - The Gathering - always attracts the best in the business. But with the tiny island population suddenly doubling, the local police force is stretched to breaking point. And this year they have to deal with more than just drunken fights and rowdy behaviour.... Ranald Buchanan, the local poet, is found dead, with his head brutally caved in, and Inspector Torquil McKinnon is brought in to investigate. Did Ranald trip and fall, as suggested? Or is something more sinister happening?

Deathly Wind

Autor:
Keith Moray

Sprecher:
David McCallion

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 33 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

The Scottish Hebrides - Inspector Torquil McKinnon has returned to the remote Scottish island of West Uist to devastating news. His closest friend, Constable Ewan McPhee, is missing, presumed dead. When more bodies are found in suspicious circumstances, it is clear a serial killer is at large. Tensions are high, and paranoia is rife.

As the Crow Flies

Autor:
Damien Boyd

Sprecher:
Napoleon Ryan

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 22 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

3.5 out of 5 stars
5

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Geschichte

3 out of 5 stars
4

Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell.

Bed, Breakfast, and Bones

A Ravenwood Cove Cozy Mystery

Autor:
Carolyn Dean

Sprecher:
Gail Hedrick

Spieldauer: 5 Std. und 20 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
4

Amanda Graham inherited a rundown bed and breakfast, a starving cat, and some dead guy who's buried in her garden! What should've been a simple remodeling project and a new business in a small Oregon beach town winds up with her uncle named as the number-one murder suspect, a slew of odd neighbors and problematic townspeople, and Amanda wanting to just sit down and eat her weight in chocolate pie.

The Hope That Kills

A DI Fenchurch Novel, Book 1

Autor:
Ed James

Sprecher:
Michael Page

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 56 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
13

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
11

The body of a young woman is found on the streets of East London, in the shadow of the City's gleaming towers. No ID on her, just hard-earned cash. But there is no doubting the ferocity of the attack. DI Simon Fenchurch takes charge but, as his team tries to identify her and piece together her murder, they're faced with cruel indifference at every turn - nobody cares about yet another dead prostitute.

Dry Bones

Autor:
Peter May

Sprecher:
Simon Vance

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 21 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
13

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
12

What happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher at the École Nationale d’Administration, who trained some of France’s best and brightest as future prime ministers and presidents, vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. This ten-year-old mystery inspires a bet—one that Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse, France, instead of pursuing a brilliant career in forensics back home in Scotland, can ill afford to lose.

Knots and Crosses

Autor:
Ian Rankin

Sprecher:
James Macpherson

Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 25 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
35

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
31

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
31

'And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?' 'That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer.

The Mitford Murders

The Mitford Murders, Book 1

Autor:
Jessica Fellowes

Sprecher:
Rachel Atkins

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 15 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
9

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Last Bus to Woodstock

Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 1

Autor:
Colin Dexter

Sprecher:
Samuel West

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 42 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
14

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
14

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
14

The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the
Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of willful murder, sexual assault and rape. But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key....

5 out of 5 stars

Sehr guter Krimi, sehr gut gelesen

Von
CliffBarnes
Am hilfreichsten
04.02.2018

Unquiet Souls

Autor:
Liz Mistry

Sprecher:
Marston York

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 54 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
3

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
3

What is the link between the abduction of a little girl and a dead prostitute? When the body of a prostitute is found, followed by the discovery of children locked in an attic, DI Gus McGuire is handed the case. But what at first appears to be a simple murder soon turns into an international manhunt for the members of a twisted child trafficking ring. McGuire, who is suffering with his own emotional problems, must pick his way through the web of deceit and uncover the truth in time before the body count rises. Can McGuire identify The Matchmaker before it’s too late? And can he trust those he is working with?

Lemonade and Lies

Autor:
Agatha Frost

Sprecher:
Jilly Bond

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 22 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
1

Sprecher

3 out of 5 stars
1

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
1

When the entire village is invited to a garden party for a mysterious announcement, nobody expects it to end with a man being thrown to his death. In a race against the clock, Julia must juggle her blossoming romance with DI Brown whilst interpreting her lodger's strange behaviour to uncover the truth behind the untimely death. With members of her family in the frame, will Julia like what she discovers?

A Quiet Life in the Country

A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 1

Autor:
T E Kinsey

Sprecher:
Elizabeth Knowelden

Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 43 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
82

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
82

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely gorgeous!

Von
D. aus A.
Am hilfreichsten
05.03.2017

Rack, Ruin and Murder

Autor:
Ann Granger

Sprecher:
Judith Boyd

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 24 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
6

Sprecher

4 out of 5 stars
5

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
4

When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room it comes as a nasty surprise. Monty lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house and the last thing he wants is the police sniffing around his property. But Inspector Jess Campbell is determined to solve the mystery, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig deep into Monty’s family history to reveal the shocking truth...